[chelseytx]

::hands the ladies a dork sticker::

Here you girls go, put these on your foreheads!

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::slaps sticker back on avi's forehead:: Naw u need it more than me.

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:: slaps a "I'm a dork, KICK ME!" sign on Avi's back ::

[Username0223]

::: high fives Shil for giving Cuz the sticker on the back of HIS head!!! :::

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[Username0223]

::: high five Chel for the sign on Cuz's back! :::


Lmao Chel-i was just gonna do that too! Ya beat me to it girl!

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[CousinAvi]

Ooh, you girls are harsh! lol

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[crs7088]

::kicks avi:: what? It says kick me lol

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[Username0223]

Ooh, you girls are harsh! lol

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hey ya mess with the bull---ya get the horns!!! Lol

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[CousinAvi]

Just be careful where you put that horn!

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[crs7088]

hey ya mess with the bull---ya get the horns!!! Lol

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that's from the breakfast club! My fav movie!!

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[Username0223]

that's from the breakfast club! My fav movie!!

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yea l like that movie too!

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[crs7088]

Eat my shorts! Lol

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[Username0223]

Just be careful where you put that horn!

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yea well Cuz - if you don't behave yourself your gonna be pretty uncomfortable when you sit! Lmao!!

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[Username0223]

I'll be back little later kids- my kiddies are getting outta school & I have to plan dinner!!! Oh goody!

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[Back-space]

Hey guys! How's it going? I'm at the clinic now, still gotta wait a while... But I made it through the doors

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[crs7088]

:::Claps for b-s :::

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[BergerKing]

Part IV

I go to the LSE school at North Island Naval Air Station. Here, we as a group, spend 10 to 14 hours a day learning the basics of how to "wave" a helo aboard ship. They have simulated 'decks' painted on the hard pads at the old Imperial Beach landing field where we go down to practice the art of signalling, with SH-3 and SH-2, with a couple of CH-46 transports thrown in.

Winds from the downdrafts spray gravel and dust into your face, as an instructor tries to yell information over the din of screaming jet engines, whipping rotors, and 75mph rotorwash.

You're wearing goggles that barely give you air, and sweat pours into your eyes as you try and decipher and take in the movements, the subtle cues, and remember the sequences of the signals as a bird approaches the deck. Each helo has its own characteristics, each flies differently, and each has emergency procedures for various conditions, and you are doinf, learning, and ducking at the same time.
Now, throw in weather, sun in your eyes, rain, and another one, night.

It's kinda like teaching elephants to pirouette on tiptoe while swinging lawnmowers.

And while standing in the tempest, trying to make sure you do the right thing at the right time, your sphincter shuts so tightly you couldn't drive a knitting needle with a sledgehammer through it. (Sorry for that graphic, )

But you get through it. Hot, dripping with moisture, wrung out like an old dishrag. You learn, because lives depend on it. Including your own.

And you really start finding out what you're made of.

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[crs7088]

:::mouth gaped open shoving popcorn in eyes wide open listening to bk's story:::

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[Back-space]

I'm next.... Aaaaaaaa this is gonna suck so hard damn... Bye bye

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[BergerKing]

Part V.

At the end of the school, they give out an award, Top Dog, highest marks in the class.

Imagine my shock when they called me out to receive it.

I report back to the ship prior to starting Refresher Training, several weeks of brutal day-in, day out training scenarios. Drills, Flight quarters, Sea and Anchor detail, Vertical Replenishment, Underway Replenishment, Firefighting Drills, Casualty drills as complex as the mind can imagine.

If you get an hour of rest between drills, call yourself lucky. You are told you're dead sometimes. Your ship is killed in simulated torpedo, missile, bomb drops chemical attacks, mines, fires, flooding

Your shipmates are "maimed" injured, killed, burned, drowned. You learn how to deal with EVERY possible scenario, again, and again.

You see missiles, machine guns, cannons, torpedoes launched, grenades thrown. You learn to handle small arms. Fight intruders, fight terrorists and protect "special weapons".

You learn, and do it well, you're chances improve to live and tell the tale.

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[crs7088]

ooo, this is getting good!

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[Username0223]

::: sits and waits as BK prepares for the next chapter of his life..... :::

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[cnorton]

Hello everyone, anyone familiar on holds on paychecks? The owner delayed everyones paychecks till tomorrow with a hold.

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[pkcable]

Gang,

I don't drink anymore, BUT if I did I would have you all pour me a double, no make that a TRIPLE shot of Jack!

[BergerKing]

Part VI

You get sent to Shipboard Firefighting School, and Aviation FFS, where as you prepare, they tell you to remove eyeglasses and contact lenses, lest you have them welded to your face and eyeballs.

You fight fire after fire. Blast fires of DFM (diesel fuel, marine)JP5, (jet fuel), oil, electrical, and others. It is a crash course in getting to know what a steak on a grill experiences.

You wrestle fire hoses that can kill you if you don't keep hold. 120 psI of water main pressure can pick up a man like an elephant's trunk.

It is so difficult that you lose 10-15 lbs in that day. You'll feel it for the next week as you cough out globs of black phlegm. But you never forget it.

And there's DC school, damage control.

This is where you learn to fight flooding and shipboard damage. 10 hours in freezing cold salt water, where you scrape a knee and feel it burn like acid, eating into you. You're so numb at the end of the day, you think you'll never get warm again.

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[Username0223]

Gang,

I don't drink anymore, BUT if I did I would have you all pour me a double, no make that a TRIPLE shot of Jack!

well PK the good thing about being here is you can drink whatever you want without any affects!!! So here's your triple shot of jack and enjoy

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[crs7088]

Bk's story is gettin good! On a side not anyone know how to make my internet not be so slow?

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